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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Dead Military Navigation Satellite (Cosmos 985) Near the Disk of the Moon by Trevor Paglen, Image 1.

    Trevor Paglen

    Dead Military Navigation Satellite (Cosmos 985) Near the Disk of the Moon, 2012

    Chromogenic print

    44 x 36 in (111.76 x 91.44 cm)

  2. Louie Palu

    U.S. Marine Lcpl. Damon "Commie" Connell, age 20, Helmand, Afghanistan, 2008

    Archival pigment print

  3. Emily, Sts, & Becky, Durham, North Carolina by Catherine Opie, Image 1.

    Catherine Opie

    Emily, Sts, & Becky, Durham, North Carolina, 1998

    Chromogenic print

    40 x 50 in (101.6 x 127.0 cm)

  4. Fingers and Holes by Bruce Nauman, Image 1.

    Bruce Nauman

    Fingers and Holes, 1994

    Etching on paper

    32 x 32.25 in (81.28 x 81.92 cm)

  5. The Family by Alice Neel, Image 2.

    Alice Neel

    The Family, 1982

    Lithograph in colors on Arches paper

    31.5 x 27 in (80.01 x 68.58 cm)

  6. Mother and Child (Nancy and Olivia) by Alice Neel, Image 2.

    Alice Neel

    Mother and Child (Nancy and Olivia), 1982

    Lithograph in colors on Arches paper

    31 x 28 in (78.74 x 71.12 cm)

  7. The Youth by Alice Neel, Image 2.

    Alice Neel

    The Youth, 1982

    Lithograph in colors on Arches paper

    38 x 25 in (96.52 x 63.5 cm)

  8. Portrait of John Rothschild by Alice Neel, Image 2.

    Alice Neel

    Portrait of John Rothschild, 1980

    Lithograph in colors on Arches paper

    27.5 x 21.75 in (69.85 x 55.25 cm)

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About the artist

Irving Norman

1906-1989

Without a doubt, Irving Norman is one of the greatest American social surrealists of the 20th century. A Jewish Lithuanian émigré born in Vilnius (then under Russian control) Norman moved to the United States with his family in 1923. In 1938, Norman joined the Abraham Lincoln battalion of the International Brigade to fight Francisco Franco and the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. Returning in 1940, Norman sought to confront and describe the atrocities he had seen during his time in Spain and turned to art as his outlet. Norman's surrealist work, inspired by his experiences, socialist stance, and the tenants of Mexican muralism, tells a tale of capitalistic greed, machine-like automatism, and the horrors of modern life.